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Originally Posted by rkomar
I think there are two classes of buyer here. There is the occasional reader who needs any old book to read on the airplane or at the beach. That kind of reader may pick up any latest bestseller, like a Patterson book, and may buy a few per year as needed. Then there are those who only buy a book to be part of a cultural event, and it's only books like "50 Shades of Gray", or "The DaVinci Code", or some similar phenomenal bestseller. For the latter class, there is no substitute for the book they want, and they only buy one every year or two when some book is all the rage among non-readers.
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Actually those occasional readers will read whatever is the popular book of the month and will neither know nor care if it's indie or tradpub. Essentially, if you can get the book in paper form into supermarkets and airports, whichever book is best (or given your examples, least worst
) will become the rage. If you give it a bit of a marketing push or it's by an author that people have found unobjectionable before then all the better.